Why should religion make us lose respect for human life?

Eighteen bloodied bodies,shot Gestapo-style,lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit,demanding that all 117 persons on board alight.Those with Shia sounding names on their national identification cards were separated out. Minutes later it was all over;the earlier massacres of Hazara Shias in Mastung and . . . →Read More:Why should religion make us lose respect for human life?

Islam and the ‘history’ of violence

Though no age in the human history is immaculate of the bloodspots of violence but in the present phase of the history when due to fast means of communication the world has withered into a village,violence has become a hot burning topic everywhere. By nature and manifestation violence is of different kinds. One is . . . →Read More:Islam and the ‘history’ of violence

Bank robbed by conmen dressed as policemen

Eight cons dressed as policemen,riding a police mobile,robbed a bank of around Rs2.3 million in cash and jewelry worth more than Rs200 million in Chichawatni on Monday.

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Woman and daughter killed as attackers opened fire on the wrong target

An elderly woman and her daughter were killed in an attack in one of the rooms in the VIP ward of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences late on Saturday night.

According to the police,the attackers’ target was Rana Sarwat,an under-trial prisoner,who was under treatment after he suffered bullet wounds in district courts . . . →Read More:Woman and daughter killed as attackers opened fire on the wrong target

Families scared to see their loved ones deployed to Afghanistan

They all heard some version of the same thing.“Whaddaya mean,deployed?” Or “I thought everyone came home.”

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Blackmagic:Infant’s body missing from grave in Faisalabad

The body of a newborn baby was excavated from the Malikpur graveyard in Faisalabad on Monday evening. . . . →Read More:Blackmagic:Infant’s body missing from grave in Faisalabad

Non-lethal weapons and the threat they pose

From Egypt,to Athens,to Oakland,police have employed “non-lethal weapons”to break down recent protests and disperse protesters.

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Pakistan –Its broke and you can’t fix it!

I hate to be honest and factual about certain issues and subjects…Unfortunately Pakistan’s future happens to be one such subject. It’s like discussing future medical treatment for a 100% certified terminally ill patient whose chances of recovery are worse than none. While the doctors discuss with family of the patient what . . . →Read More:Pakistan –Its broke and you can’t fix it!

Murdered,chopped up,cooked:Woman arrested for cooking husband

Zainab tried a new ingredient for Qorma yesterday – her husband.

It was the olfactory insult that brought the police to her door. The landlord,Behzad,who lived on the ground floor of their two-storey Green Town house,was so perturbed by the cooking that he went upstairs to inquire. The scene that met his . . . →Read More:Murdered,chopped up,cooked:Woman arrested for cooking husband